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    Nonfiction
    The Hebrew Book in Ear­ly Mod­ern Italy
    Joseph R. Hack­er and Adam Shear, eds.
    Nonfiction
    On the Ori­gins of Jew­ish Self-Hatred
    Paul Reit­ter
    Nonfiction
    Ori­en­tal­ism and the Hebrew Imagination
    Yaron Peleg
    Nonfiction
    The Lad­der of Jacob: Ancient Inter­pre­ta­tions of the Bib­li­cal Sto­ry of Jacob and His Children
    James L. Kugel
    Nonfiction
    Two Nations in Your Womb: Per­cep­tions of Jews and Chris­tians in Late Antiq­ui­ty and the Mid­dle Ages
    Israel Jacob Yuval
    Nonfiction
    Reck­less Rites: Purim and the Lega­cy of Jew­ish Violence
    Elliot Horowitz
    Nonfiction
    Telling the Lit­tle Secrets: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Writ­ing Since the 1980’s
    Janet Han­dler Burstein
    Nonfiction
    The Tal­mud’s The­o­log­i­cal Lan­guage Game: A Philo­soph­i­cal Dis­course Analysis
    Eugene B. Borowitz
    Nonfiction
    On Sac­ri­fice
    Moshe Hal­ber­tal
    Nonfiction
    We’re Miss­ing The Point:What’s Wrong With The Ortho­dox Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty And How to Fix it
    Rab­bi Dr. Gidon Rothstein
    Nonfiction
    Defend­ing the Human Spir­it: Jew­ish law’s Vision For a Moral Society
    Rab­bi Dr. War­ren Goldstein
    Nonfiction
    Wit­ness to the One: The spir­i­tu­al his­to­ry of the Sh’ma
    Rab­bi Joseph B. Meszler
    Nonfiction
    Pledges of Jew­ish Alle­giance: Con­ver­sion, Law, and Pol­i­cy­mak­ing in Nine­teenth- and Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Ortho­dox Responsa
    David Ellen­son and Daniel Gordis
    Nonfiction
    Essen­tial Torah: A Com­plete Guide to the Five Books of Moses
    George Robin­son
    Nonfiction
    For­eign­ers and Their Food: Con­struct­ing Oth­er­ness in Jew­ish, Chris­t­ian, and Islam­ic Law
    David M. Freidenreich
    Nonfiction
    Promis­cu­ous: Portnoy’s Com­plaint and Our Doomed Pur­suit of Happiness
    Bernard Avishai
    Nonfiction
    Lega­cy: A Genet­ic His­to­ry of the Jew­ish People
    Har­ry Ostrer
    Nonfiction
    The JPS Com­men­tary on the Hag­gadah: His­tor­i­cal Intro­duc­tion, Trans­la­tion, and Commentary
    Joseph Tabo­ry; David Stern, fwd.
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    The Book of Job
    Harold S. Kushner
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    Wives With­out Hus­bands: Mar­riage, Deser­tion, and Wel­fare in New York 1900 – 1935
    Anna R. Igra
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